Car fire on northbound 405 snarls traffic

Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, January 18, 2006

A car fire Thursday afternoon backed up traffic at least four miles on state Route 405, the Washington State Patrol said.

A State Patrol dispatcher confirmed the car fire occurred on northbound 405 at 70th Street at 5 p.m. By of 5:28 p.m., three of four lanes were shut down, snarling traffic, the dispatcher said. She did not know if anyone was injured in the fire.